Church of England priest calls for the overthrow of Theresa May
by Archbishop Cranmer:
Fr Christopher Woods is the parish priest of St Anne’s Hoxton. He is a Labour Party supporter, which is laudable, and also a member of Momentum, which isn’t so, but it’s a free country and clergy have every right to involve themselves in the murky morass of democracy. Whether it is sound judgment, of course, is another question. Momentum are the Corbynista revolutionaries who have seized control of the Labour Party, and Fr Christopher is positively evangelical about their virtues. ‘Check out Momentum. I just joined’, he announced on 16th June (there is no comparable ‘Check out Jesus’ tweet discernible over the past few months).
Momentum not only support Jeremy Corbyn, they are (despite the outcome of the General Election) coordinating marches and demonstrations with an abundance of placards proclaiming things like ‘May Must Go’, ‘Tories Out’, ‘Tories have got blood on their hands’, and ‘Defy Tory Rule’. So much for democracy. In conjunction with trade union leaders, they are planning a summer of discontent to pave the way for ‘Red October’, when Jeremy Corbyn will, they hope, enter No.10. The misery of the people caused by waves of strikes is of little consequence: the end justifies the means. This is a militant Marxist cult of ‘Solidarity, Class Struggle, Socialism‘: ‘Kick the Tories out’ is the stated objective, no doubt with ensuing riots and civil disorder (which, no doubt, Fr Christopher would eschew).
One of the ring leaders of this militancy is Owen Jones, who naturally believes, as Momentum state, that “the Tories have lost the consent of the people and cannot rule”. Theresa May and the Tories must go because the people have apparently changed their minds since the General Election a fortnight ago. ‘Someone who is now unable to appear in public can no longer remain Prime Minister. This disgraceful farce has to end’, Jones tweeted (despite May winning 55 more seats than Corbyn, and the greatest popular vote since… O, never mind). Fr Christopher Woods RT’d this tweet on 16th June, the day he gave his heart to Momentum.
Now then, Fr Chris (as he prefers to be known) might be a perfectly nice guy and a faithful parish priest, and it is a Twitter axiom that RT ≠ endorsement. But in this case it seems reasonable to judge that he RT’d this tweet because he really does support Owen Jones’s political objective. You only have to survey the rest of his Twitter feed to draw this conclusion. He clearly did not RT this tweet in order to increase attendance at the Hoxton Parish prayer meeting.
Is it appropriate for a Church of England priest to be calling for the revolutionary overthrow of an elected prime minister?
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